Who was Ḥubbā al-Madīniyya?

Classical Arabic literature features many stories about a woman named Ḥubbā al-Madīniyya. These stories are mostly humorous and often lewd. Some readers describe them as overly obscene confirmation of early Arabic high literature’s tendency to degrade women. One modern scholar has claimed that Ḥubbā...

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Zusammenfassung:	Classical Arabic literature features many stories about a woman named Ḥubbā al-Madīniyya. These stories are mostly humorous and often lewd. Some readers describe them as overly obscene confirmation of early Arabic high literature’s tendency to degrade women. One modern scholar has claimed that Ḥubbā “embodies in her essence the female adab [classical Arabic belles-lettres] character”, in that she is, first and foremost, a body with “uncontrollable sexuality”.¹ Other scholars counter this interpretation, arguing that it is predicated upon a misreading of classical Arabic literature and a lack of understanding of its genres.² The focus here is the literary creation of